Garment-fastening device.



D. MARINSKY.

GARMENT FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I9. 1918.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 19, 1918. Serial No. 229,522.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that LDAvIs MARINSKY, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to garment fastening devices and particularly to devices of this class of the hook and eye type, and the object thereof is to provide devices of this class, the construction and operation of which is such as to facilitate their attachment to, or connection with, the article or articles to which they are applied, and also facilitate and simplify this operation and use thereof; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in fastening devices of the class specified, constructed, applied and used as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the f0llowing specification, of which the accompanying drawin forms a part, in which the separate parts 0 my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters In each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing one form -of my improved fastening device and the method of applying and using the same;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 a sectional side view on an enlarged scale of one of the elements of construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 2- but show ing a modification;

Fig. 5 a plan view detached and partially in section of one part of the fastening device shown in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 a plan view of a tape or fabric strip which I employ;

Fig. 7 a view similar to 6 but show sets 5 of fastening devices of the hook and eye type, the hooks being shown at 0 and the eyes at d, and the hooks a are of the ordinary hump type, and my invention consists in the method of, or means for securing the fastening devices to the fabric material, any kind or'class of which may be employed.

The hooks c are provided with the usual oppositely arranged open spring rings or eyes 0 and the eyes (Z are provided with similar oppositely arranged open spring rings or eyes (i and in the practice of my invention I provide hollow sheet metal knobs or balls 6 similar to those employed in ball and socket fastening devices, except that they are not split, and these knobs or balls 6' are provided with contracted necks and open at one side and around the openings are laterally directed flanges c and in securing the eyes to the fabric, the said fabric is provided with perforations f, as shown in Fig. 6, and the knobs or balls e are passed therethrough as shown in Figs. 7 and 8 and through the rings or eyes (Z as shown in Fig. 2, in which operation sufficient pressure is applied to said rings or eyes d to spring the same over or permit the passage of the knobs or balls 6 therethrough, after which the rings or' eyes (Z contract around the d in Fig. 2, and as indicated in Fig. 1, so as ing one part of the fastening device applied to the strip;

Fig. 8 a view similar to Fig. 7 but showing the strip folded centrally and longitudinally; and, I

Fig. 9 a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a modification.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a and 0: two fabric strips or tapes and applied thereto are two to expand the same around and over the rings or eyes d as is clearly indicated in Fig. 2.

After the above described operation, the

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strip a in which the eyes 01 have been secured may be folded as shown in Fig. 8 along the central line a of Fig. 7, and this forms a backing for the fabric strip a or fabric material which covers the flange or flanges e of the knobs or balls 6. I

It will be noted, of course, that the knobs or balls 6 are used in the same manner for securing the hooks c to the fabric material, and while the strips of fabric material shown in Fig. 6 are much narrower than the corresponding strips shown in Fig. 1, my inventionis not limited in any way to the form, shape, or dimensions of the fabric strip or fabric material in connection with which my improved fastening devices are employed.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown a modification in which two of the knobs or balls are employed in connection with a, .single back plate, said knobs or balls being shown at g, and the back plate at 9 and the neck portions of the knobs or balls are provided on their opposite sides and in a central line parallel with the central longitudinal line of the eyes d or 0 in which operation said rings or eyes are expanded, after which they contract and enter the recesses, apertures or indentations g in the necks of the knobs or balls. g, and the hooks and eyes are securely connected with the fabric material as in the manner hereinbefore described when referring to the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 8 inclusive.

My invention is notlimited to the indentations of the tops of the knobs or balls e as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, nor the provision of the necks of said knobs or balls with recesses, apertures or indentations as shown in Figs. 4 and 5,and in lieu thereof a fastening member similar to that shown in Fig. 9 and comprising a hollow cylindrical body portion 2' having a base flange i ma be employed. 4 In the use of this form of astening device the sprin rings or eyes are passed down over the cylindrical body portion, or said body portion is passed throu h said spring rings or eyes, and the top thereof is depressed or compressed so as to enlarge the sides thereof over the spring rings or eyes in the same manner as in Fig. 2, and as indicated in dotted lines, and to facilitate this operation the top of the cylindrical body portion is made convex.

While I have stated that the rings or eyes of the hook and eye devices '0 andd are forced over the knobs or balls 6, it will be understood that this operation may be rei that .the former method versed and theknobs or balls may be forced through said rings or eyes, but it is believed of operation is preferred, and while I have shown and described the knobs or balls 6 and g as being hollow in construction, it Will be understood that the same may be made solid.

My improved fastening devices or means I for using the same may be employed wherever such devices are capable of use, and

changes in'and modifications of the construction herein described may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or 1 sacrificing its advantages.

or balls to bring said rings or eyes in 'engagement with the reduced necks thereof to secure said fastening devices to said strip of flexible material.

2; The herein described means for securing fastening devices having rings or eyes to a strip of flexiblematerial perforated at intervals, comprising hollow knobs or balls having enlarged heads, reduced necks and base flanges, the reduced necks having trans verse apertures at its opposite sides, said knobs or balls being passed through the apertures insaid strip of material, 'and said rings or eyes being passed on over the enlarged heads of said knobs or balls and into engagement with the transverse apertures in the reduced. necks to secure said fastening devices to said strip of material.

3. The herein described means for securing fastening devices having a pair of rings or eyes to a stri of flexible material perforated at interva s, comprising a base having a pair of projecting hollow bodies connected with said base by reduced neck portions, the opposite sides of the neck portions of each of said hollow bodies having transverse apertures, said hollow bodies being adapted to be passed through the perforations in said strip of material, and said pair of rings or eyes being adapted to be passed over said pair of hollow bodies and into the transverse apertures of the reduced necks to secure said fastening devices to said strip of material.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 16th day of April 1918. t

DAVIS MARINSKY. Witnesses:

' C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THoMPsoN. 

